Filter assembly and systems/methods of dispensing from and storing the filter assembly

摘要

A gravity-driven water filtering system comprising: a gravity-driven water filter configured to engage and deliver treated water through apertures of various sizes and a filter receiving device. The gravity-driven water filter includes: a bottom portion; a water filter; and a top portion. The water filter is configured to be removably engaged by hand without the use of tools from the bottom portion and the water filter, the bottom portion and the top portion are each configured to be removably engaged and disengaged to allow for replacement of the filter and reassembly of the overall gravity filter assembly by hand and without the use of tools. The filter receiving device is a) a flat bottomed stand; b) a carrying device; or c) an adapter.

主权项

1. A gravity-driven water filtering system comprising: a gravity-driven water filter configured to engage and deliver treated water through apertures of various sizes and a filter receiving device,
wherein the gravity-driven water filter comprises: a bottom portion having at least one treated fluid outlet, an upper perimeter, and a bottom portion side wall that defines an interior volume of the bottom portion and wherein the bottom portion side wall is a shaped surface that is configured to frictionally engage a plurality of differently sized fluid vessel openings and still allow treated fluid to be delivered to the interior of a fluid vessel through the at least one treated fluid outlets; a water filter comprising a fluid treatment medium positioned within the water filter wherein the filter is operably engaged with the bottom portion and having a fluid intake location and a fluid outgoing location that delivers treated fluid to the interior volume of the bottom portion and out of the at least one treated fluid outlet of the bottom portion; a top portion having an interior volume defined by at least one wall, at least one fluid inlet, and a bottom perimeter defining an opening and wherein the top portion is configured to received fluid from at least one fluid inlet and the bottom perimeter defines an opening that is configured to allow fluid from the at least one inlet to flow into contact with an intake surface of the water filter; and wherein the water filter is configured to be removably engaged by hand without the use of tools from the bottom portion and the water filter, the bottom portion and the top portion are each configured to be removably engaged and disengaged to allow for replacement of the filter and reassembly of the overall gravity-driven water filter by hand and without the use of tools; and wherein the filter receiving device comprises a filter receiving device chosen from the group consisting of: a) a flat bottomed stand that receives the top portion of the gravity-driven water filter where the stand has a top portion receiving center section insert that has the same shape as the top portion such that the top portion matingly engages the top portion receiving center section insert and wherein the top portion receiving center section insert is detachable from a perimeter stand portion positioned about a perimeter of the top portion receiving center section insert when engaged therewith; b) an adapter configured to either (1) provide an ability for the gravity-driven water filter to deliver treated water to a vessel having a aperture larger than the width of the gravity-driven water filter or (2) engage a side wall of the vessel and suspend the gravity-driven water filter from a side wall over an aperture larger than the width of the gravity-driven water filter.